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Restoring the Culture War: The Attack on Ahmed Sharif
Fear-mongering and Islamophobia have returned to the headlines and the TV stations in the U.S., and recently here in New York a cab driver, Ahmed Sharif, was violently attacked by a passenger who asked if he was Muslim. Nine years after 9/11, why are the culture wars once again an issue for the Right?more
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Restoring the Culture War: The Attack on Ahmed Sharif
September 2, 2010Fear-mongering and Islamophobia have returned to the headlines and the TV stations in the U.S., and recently here in New York a cab driver, Ahmed Sharif, was violently attacked by a passenger who asked if he was Muslim. Nine years after 9/11, why are...
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Bill Fletcher, Jr: Spinning Victory in Iraq
September 2, 2010President Obama might have declared the combat mission over in Iraq this week, but thousands of troops and contractors remain behind in that country and troops are still moving into Afghanistan. In his speech, Obama struck a note of conciliation with...
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Bill Fletcher, Jr., Attack on Ahmed Sharif, and New Voters
September 1, 2010President Obama might have declared the combat mission over in Iraq this week, but thousands of troops and contractors remain behind in that country and troops are still moving into Afghanistan. In his speech, Obama struck a note of conciliation with...
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The F Word: Fight Tea Party Voters With Fresh Voters
September 1, 2010Candidates have been in their districts, making nice to likely mid-term voters. They're more scarce than general election voters, and typically a more polarized bunch. What if there were more of them and more low-income people, particularly women, we...
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Student Organizing in the Age of Obama
September 1, 2010The current stage of the recession sees state budgets hitting crisis points around the country, and one of the areas targeted for cuts has been state univerisities. Students, already dealing with prohibitive levels of debt, have been coming together...
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Jan Schakowsky: The War Economy
September 1, 2010Recently at Netroots Nation, Laura sat down with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, who's been a leader in the fight against the use of private contractors like Blackwater in war zones (and at home). Our friends at the UpTake captured this video for us, ...
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Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Personal Fight for Green Jobs
September 1, 2010The struggle for green jobs brings together the struggle for sustainability and a cleaner environment and the fight against poverty--a struggle for justice for all. Green for All unites these struggles into one movement, as CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins ...
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Got Docs: Way Down In The Hole
August 28, 2010Trinidad, Colorado saw one of the country's bloodiest labor battles in 1913-1914, during the legendary coal miner's strike there. Now a new documentary, Way Down In The Hole, looks at the conflicts that led to the violence, between laborers and bosse...
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Green Jobs for Buffalo
August 20, 2010"The fastest way to stop a bullet is to give someone a job, and what better job to give them than the one that transforms where they live?" That's the question for Buffalo, New York, as People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) leads the community...
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Rethink Afghanistan: Progress? We've heard it before
August 18, 2010As Sonali Kolhatkar pointed out, "progress" in Afghanistan is entirely in the eyes of the beholder. While the vast majority of the American people believes that the war will end badly, General Petraeus is now repeating the same lines we've heard bef...
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Flooding in Pakistan: Disaster Ignored
August 12, 2010The United Nations has declared the flooding in Pakistan one of the worst disasters in the organization's history, calling for its largest disaster response effort, but it's gone largely unreported here. 14 million people have been affected, and at l...
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Mos Def: It Ain't My Fault (It's BP's)
August 10, 2010"It Ain't My Fault" is an old New Orleans tune, a familiar one to anyone who's been around the city. The chorus has taken on new resonance in recent years, and especially in the wake of BP's oil flooding the Gulf of Mexico.At a recent benefit for Gul...
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